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  • College Sports Are Unsustainable

    College Sports Are Unsustainable

    The GAO’s latest report shows that even Division I athletics are becoming an increasingly expensive proposition for universities.

    America’s colleges and universities are facing severe financial pressures, leading to staff layoffs and reduced real compensation—achieved by keeping salary increases below inflation—for many employees, even at wealthy, elite private…

  • Diversity State

    Diversity State

    Tom Powers traces the legal and philosophical rise of multiculturalism in American institutions.

    Tom Powers writes that multiculturalism originated in the immediate aftermath of the civil rights revolution. His book, American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Challenge to Liberal Pluralism, takes readers…

  • Education Department Ends Disparate-Impact Discipline Rules

    Education Department Ends Disparate-Impact Discipline Rules

    Schools will no longer face federal investigations based solely on racial disparities in discipline absent evidence of intentional discrimination.

    On July 23, the Department of Education (ED) repealed its disparate impact regulations. Those disparate-impact regulations led some school districts to make discipline decisions based on race.

  • The Week in Review

    The Week in Review

    My brain took the week off. Our contributors didn’t.

    My brain has betrayed me this week. I have nothing of my own to tell you today. Instead, I’ve spent the week on something of an editorial rampage, publishing piece…

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  • The Week in Review

    The Week in Review

    My brain took the week off. Our contributors didn’t.
  • The NSF’s Industrial Turn

    The NSF’s Industrial Turn

    The NSF’s new doctoral program hints at a future in which industry plays a much larger role in training researchers.
  • The Promise of a New Golden Age

    The Promise of a New Golden Age

    The White House report advances many reforms the National Association of Scholars has long advocated.
  • The Science Abundance Gospel

    The Science Abundance Gospel

    For 75 years, Washington has preached that science needs more government. The White House still believes it.

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  • Degrees and Detours

    Degrees and Detours

    The skilled trades remain an overlooked path to financial independence and economic opportunity.
  • Some Students Aren’t Moving Back Home

    Some Students Aren’t Moving Back Home

    As delayed financial independence becomes the norm for young college graduates, a 22-year-old Texas welder shows there’s still another way.
  • What Should a College Degree Signify?

    What Should a College Degree Signify?

    If we cannot define what a college graduate ought to know and be able to do, we cannot reform higher education.
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    From the Hiring Side of the Table

    Declining academic standards and poor preparation are what’s leaving many graduates unemployable.